"To Be Free Is to Free Others": Formerly Incarcerated Women Urge Decarceration
The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up.
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The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up.
Governor Maura Healey's move to pardon 13 people is positioning Massachusetts among a growing number of states where chief executives are again embracing clemency.
Incarcerated women spoke in support of a prison construction moratorium, saying they wanted more funding for restorative justice and reentry services.
Inmates testified virtually from MCI-Framingham on a bill that would put in place a five-year jail and prison construction moratorium. They cited a lack of health care, education, skill-building, domestic violence counseling, and other programming, saying that funding for a new prison could go to increasing services for incarcerated individuals.
Restoring the right to vote for those in Massachusetts prisons with a felony conviction would be the next step in criminal justice reform, advocates argued before the Election Laws Committee on Thursday.